A restock is new stock of something that sold out. With seed, that means a new batch was made, and a new batch is a new set of pollinations.
In practice
If the breeder used the same mother and the same father (kept as clones or stored pollen), a restock can match the original closely. If a new male was chosen, or the line was remade from different plants, the restock is effectively a different population under the same name. Growers who loved the first batch and hated the second are often seeing exactly that.
Ask whether a restock used the same parents and when the seed was made. Batch-level records, such as a separate GenetixBay batch ID for each production run, let growers compare batches instead of arguing about names.
Don't confuse with
- Remake: an openly new version of an old cross; at least it admits the change.
- Drop: the first release.
A drop is a seed or clone release, often limited and announced in advance, especially from popular breeders or seed vendors.A line is a population of plants descended from chosen parents and maintained over generations under one name, with recorded lineage.A GB-ID is GenetixBay's permanent identifier, such as GB-GEN-0001842-6, for a genetic line, landrace, seed batch, plant, cut, grow, harvest, trial or document, so records never get lost or renamed.A batch (or lot) is a defined quantity of product from the same plants, harvest and processing run that is sampled and tested as one unit and carries one ID.
